Senior Congress leader Rashid Alvi on Monday joined the party men who have offered to contest against BJP PM candidate Narendra Modi from Varanasi Lok Sabha seat.

"For the first time, the idea of secular India is under threat.... I would request you to permit me to contest against Modi from Benares", Alvi, a former AICC spokesman, said in a letter to party chief Sonia Gandhi.

AICC General Secretary Digvijay Singh had also offered to contest against Modi in Varanasi so also Union Minister Anand Sharma.


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